"On his Blindness"
By John Milton

"On his blindness" is a lyric sonnet wrote by Milton in 1655. It is structured as a Petrarchan sonnet, made up of an octave and a sestect.
In the octave Milton intruduced the promlem: he hint at the "Parabola of the Talents" in line 3-6 (key meaning), he wonders if God askes also who is blind a day-labour, also if the talent given is infuenced by blindness. He tought haw a blind could make tghe talent fruit and serve God. In the sestect he gives the answer: God does not need us to ingratiate him, those wo can stand limitations serve him better.
All the lines of the poem are written in iambic pentameter,the sonnet contains some retorical figures like alliterations (line 2 "days" "dark" and "world" wide") and some metaphores.